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... I ... I ... I ... the Mary Kissel ... the strong then what in their coordinating impassioned speech ... in these last hours defending his invasion ... of Crimea ... he also move to formally annexed the region shared a common is editorial board member Matt Kaminski Mac ... it ... has been waiting years to make this beach what was your impression on ... me because is the prudent ... Peter coming out twenty five years or frustrations of an on court can away ... of ... but also very historic an important moment ... in European and world history ... the first time since it hit their swallowed up a chunk of the Czech ... Republic this last year ... a ... sovereign state has taken a ... piece of a neighboring states land and I think a ... this is you know as Joe Biden said today it's almost unimaginable ... you know he doesn't even need to invade the eastern Ukraine or is he trying to fit in one eye is ... key ... facts that ended ... in a mini as effectively politically now he's he's looming over the ... country ... well he is ... he may still do so here's the option of doing so the Keystone of the luster to the Swan ... he's capable of doing anything he's ... a ... retaken these rights it said the ID and you wonder Russian mall I cannot do this ... for more information on how well we Ukraine government is going down each Ukraine ... you know there's not much political authority out there ... his and to stare at my chickens that much of anything goes no troubling trend of BBB for a ... fee for the Russians came in ... as a pretext to go in ... with the bigger picture here is that he wants ... he can allow Ukraine to succeed as a ... democracy ... he Sony was to stop it from ... getting out of his sphere of influence ... he's doing to do the whatever it takes I spent several weeks in Ukraine reporting from the air ... I it was like on the ground how how was put me ... in getting his message across to the two to live in the Russian bubble to the Ukrainian of a button if you like those in both years now and it's a crime in Russia and became really have to be a ... part of this of crude and political space ... after ... the stage crew ... and what that means the people to realize is that ... the speaker cumin ... over ... pioneer has been in place over Russia for ... years now essentially by telling me that they do that since the controlling the media I mean there are no dissenting voices in the Russian media today and be scared out of purge even more recently of ... shutting down and websites on ... new clothes in the news ... outlets that in any way off for compounders independent news ... stuff that you get in Ukraine itself all the time Ramey Ukraine's a kind of alternative option you know that's possible and Russian ... seeded Russian usages in Ukraine is not available in Crimea to Russia ... he's whipped up a kind of ... a ... new war frenzy in Russia itself ... that's allowed him to to to do this and sees popularity explode as the strategic calculation Hannah goes beyond re constituting ... the old Soviet space and is there for example on ... an Indian reason energy wise to go in to protect the legal in the Crimea ... re constituting the former Soviet states in the strategic expert tuition ... and he's he's been the undoing of trying to undo the color white ... the free world has achieved in your ... last twenty five years ... the domesticity Catalonia can succeed but also there are um ... energy resources on the Crimean coast ... Ukraine is a very ... central both to the Russian self image looks atrocious ... here to to to Putin's idea of what a great state nice to be the key agrees with the Minsky that without Ukraine Russia ... can no longer be an empire included wants Russia to stay in ... one stand and I also like a battle cry disputes this morning Editorial board member Matt Kaminski a some things for joining us ... the White House is trying really really hard ... to sell Obamacare to millennials ... here's the latest ad which features some celebrity moms outlets ... it is easy going and others have a nervous breakdown ... you need health insurance it's imperative that yet how insurance is nothing worse for non healing ... you know ... Nadia because we love you ... so go the Healthcare dot that can enroll ... it's ... best the Web Today columnist James Taranto joins me now James ... I'm really not that big guns celebrity moms the first lady ... named ... Mrs Pitchfork ... and what a stupid that why would you ... we'll cover the crease with a one to go out and spend ... thousands of dollars on a shoddy health insurance policy it's just bizarre ... our signups mumbling deals going up and is now one measure of success rather up in March but only compared with February you know they've been ... the overall sign up rate has been well below what the White House was expected ... to sign up for a home on the thirty five which are the people who are hardest hit by price controls and therefore the most vital sign up ... has been by ... far below what the White House's predicted know what the White House need it's a big needed in order to make the deep dive Systems solvents ... and high tide and that a lot of people who are just record signing up haven't actually pay so ... why ... did I did all these numbers are are are are these claims of success are unbelievable this is the person a series of ads that the White House in the President's ad colleagues there are supporters ... have lined up to try to sell that whatever is that the duo ... Pajama Boy and other ones I wrote your exposure and so it's a classic of the envelope really quickly in another ad they just went up this weekend was ... the filling out your brackets and enumerate was non stop this performance ... the week that it did the right to move from here to ... discuss this week's sixteen reason and you should sign up for health insurance ... James three sixteen sweetest reasons to get covered it looks like the pitch aimed squarely at men ... why would they want him to target that particular ... group in terms of what it is one of those changes that Obamacare is married and a health insurance is to have a ban on what's called the art gender hired ... by gender our rating ... which means ... you have to charge men and women the same premiums ... Wealth ... women tend to use more health services than matter ... a disparate its greatest among young people so what they really need to do was sign up be on that ... and effects that we've discussed on this show before this expiration of Obamacare is off it was as a couple months it was about fifty five percent tough email ... the non elderly adult population is about evenly balanced between the sexes ... school fees that's because this ... is an island in the ... Amman come on screen is ha I wish my kids grow up and an insurance in it ... how would you respond to a horrible idea would be insulted well I think so I guess this is you don't like a fifty year olds idea of what it ... is how a young person thanks ... but think about in sharks but what isn't right in. I see is ... what the possible exception of the living will or it going back school will it's ... sort of the greatest ... by a manifestation of adult responsibility ... it's not something that you're concerned about when you're young and carefree ... and ... I remember when I was I in my early twenties I just went for a year or two without car insurance because I just couldn't afford it that that was it that that actually was illegal it wasn't just a matter of attacks ... I get out and ... I did tell my mom she would be shocked if you'd known but the idea that you can just ... are I'd you know ... help young people to to spend thousands of dollars on insurance and ended the stupid ads and that somehow going to get this and this was not well thought through all says the problem not the case then the problem is actually the product minutes is too expensive for millennials who forgot the problem is it's too expensive it's not a good value that the ... insurance policies are of low quality ... and it's not even something that people that they are necessarily thinking about buying ... a is the larger theme hear them calling the president's comments ... back in ... twenty twelve years after his first term he said ... all was in its success because I've just and skeleton story ... it was if the administration of President particular could look back and say what the actual states a nine day then ... you have a life change political hack yours is another example of that yet Obama doesn't have a problem with telling a story ... he has a problem with reality ... ok ... the problem with reality ... let's let that be the last word to lead to calmness chain saran so ... thank you so much thanks adjoining us ... I interesting decision yesterday in California ... not to try to reinstate racial preferences in college admissions what happens Jason Riley is here next ... welcome back to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel ... California Assembly Speaker John Perez and now it's this week ... that the state will not ask its voters to reinstate racial preferences ... in college admissions why I've got political diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley joining me Jason ... the bank and its hero of this to be ... well first of all the Democrats in the California legislature have a super majority ... that might end in November so that trying to get past anything ... and everything ... off the shelf here ... and I think they overreach and they tried to ... roll back something that voters approved back in nineteen ninety six where voters especially banned racial preferences ... in public in admissions of public universities and colleges in the state ... and they thought they could get another referendum on the ballot up and perhaps voters would change their mind ... but they ran into a roadblock with Asian politicians in the state legislature I ... because it turns out that ... ending racial preferences ... has helped a lot of people but it's especially helped ... Asians have a lot of these ... highly selective schools ... it's a zero sum game in front and in terms of the number of slots for the freshman class and patients were hurt by racial preferences that was punished ... for their smarts or the way ... Jews were in the first half ... of the twentieth century Intel agents didn't want ... racial preferences reinstated and that it would hurt their numbers and what does this hurt other minorities ... blacks or Hispanics are the largest high performing is Asians are after racial preferences or ended back in ninety six ... Asian freshman Roman spiked at a number the elite schools ... but so did black enrollment ... grades and most importantly graduation rates ... at many of the California colleges so yes it anyway so I'm not discriminating ... lifted all boats in this and why enrollment ... and graduation rates improve with those groups ... well with respect to ALM with respect to Haitians it was clear that there is an artificial cap on how many ... of the schools don't allow unless they could no longer not allow them because of their of the race for ethnicity ... the meritocracy took all with respect so um um minorities blacks and Hispanics what happened was that these kids were ... were were were choosing schools that better suit their needs were better suited their abilities I should say ... instead of being final in two more elite schools with a or overmatched and only there really make a brooch or look up what America ... Jason is this debate is only part of its California because of its large Asian population areas and they were at nationally we were going to continue to have this today because remember which hopefully they come up with action in terms of blacks and Hispanics and whites ... a We don't think of them in terms of how it hurts agent and so ... it's not just the fight on the terms of of of making up for for the past expands the flats and where ... we have to now justify hurting Agency ... to punish why it's so that blacks can get ahead in that the very convoluted argument ... that affirmative action proponents are gonna have to make their ego and are in the clinical diary editor Jason Riley thank you so much for joining us ... you can follow some Twitter email us at Opinion Journal why the WSJ's dot com or check us out and they spoke ... at WSJ's Canyon Ross of any putting up a special set aside and with new release after the show I'm Mary Kissel with The Wall Street Journal Editorial board thanks for watching ... 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